Suddenly my Gateway (XP) started to bootup in 600x800. I reset the resolution to 1025x768 and have no trouble during the session. When I turn it off and reboot it comes up in 600x800, repeatedly. It is about 2 years old and my granddaugher plays some games on it. Any ideas?
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If you cant find it at Gateway, then you need to look on the back of the monitor and get the make and model number. If you can only find the model number, then run that through google and you might get lucky there.
If that fails, there are a ton of free drivers sites out there:
Or post the make and model here, someone may have it.
A long shot here, but i just wonder if your cmos coin battery is getting a bit old. Its supposed to be 1.5 volts so you might want to check it. Actually, though, the first thing to get affected by that should be your system clock, so if your day, month, year, time is ok, then your battery is ok.
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If that fails, there are a ton of free drivers sites out there:
Or post the make and model here, someone may have it.
A long shot here, but i just wonder if your cmos coin battery is getting a bit old. Its supposed to be 1.5 volts so you might want to check it. Actually, though, the first thing to get affected by that should be your system clock, so if your day, month, year, time is ok, then your battery is ok.
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That's what i was thinking when i post above:
"A long shot here, but i just wonder if your cmos coin battery is getting a bit old."
Have you checked your coin battery yet? You can buy a good, cheap tester for batteries for a couple dollars at walmart.
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"A long shot here, but i just wonder if your cmos coin battery is getting a bit old."
Have you checked your coin battery yet? You can buy a good, cheap tester for batteries for a couple dollars at walmart.
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I vote for a game setting it to 800 x 600. (The changes made in Display properties are registry changes, not CMOS changes).
Apply the freeware utilities by Doug Knox, MS-MVP:
I also like this other utility for display settings by Doug:
Apply the freeware utilities by Doug Knox, MS-MVP:
I also like this other utility for display settings by Doug:
I didnt know that little tidbit, bcastner, thanks. gotta remember display changes are registry driven!
I see how that could leave the battery out of the equation.
But a re-set of the cmos wouldnt bring the default, standard windows driver on bootup then, which i thought it would.
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I see how that could leave the battery out of the equation.
But a re-set of the cmos wouldnt bring the default, standard windows driver on bootup then, which i thought it would.
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I would suspect one of your daughters games. How about restoring to a known good restore point first? You could try several. But make a restore point first so you can resture to square one - as it were - if need be. Or perhaps uninstalling one or more games, starting with the most recently installed one?
But a re-set of the cmos wouldnt bring the default, standard windows driver on bootup then, which i thought it would."
Force it in the boot.ini file:
/BASEVIDEO
The /basevideo switch forces the system into standard 640x480 16-color VGA mode. This is used to enable the system to load if the wrong video resolution or refresh rate had been selected.
Force it in the boot.ini file:
/BASEVIDEO
The /basevideo switch forces the system into standard 640x480 16-color VGA mode. This is used to enable the system to load if the wrong video resolution or refresh rate had been selected.
this is kinda weird, we havent heard one thing from jnvan, who started this thread.
Jnvan, have you done any of the suggestions here? You can get a battery tester real cheap at walmart, just find the one that says 3 volts on it, usually they say "lithium" on the 3 volt setting. The one I have is an analog meter, but thats fine for just a battery tester.
Jnvan, have you checked out "troubleshooting" in your "display properties"?
Jnvan,would you happen to have a second video setup for games? If so, perhaps it is causing the problem you have?
Bcastner, i see that in the "boot options" Good to know!
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Jnvan, have you done any of the suggestions here? You can get a battery tester real cheap at walmart, just find the one that says 3 volts on it, usually they say "lithium" on the 3 volt setting. The one I have is an analog meter, but thats fine for just a battery tester.
Jnvan, have you checked out "troubleshooting" in your "display properties"?
Jnvan,would you happen to have a second video setup for games? If so, perhaps it is causing the problem you have?
Bcastner, i see that in the "boot options" Good to know!
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To all Tek-Tip helpers,
Sorry about the bad manners. The problem's in my son's computer several states away. In the meantime, my computer gave up the ghost and I had to get a new one and get it working. I want to download bcastner's tip but I can seem to download more than 5-6% of anything. It just stops with no error. I am dial-up but an hour of no activity is kinda long. I'll reply later when I get settled down (I just got a month's notice on my job). Thanks for all the good tips so far.
Sorry about the bad manners. The problem's in my son's computer several states away. In the meantime, my computer gave up the ghost and I had to get a new one and get it working. I want to download bcastner's tip but I can seem to download more than 5-6% of anything. It just stops with no error. I am dial-up but an hour of no activity is kinda long. I'll reply later when I get settled down (I just got a month's notice on my job). Thanks for all the good tips so far.
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